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Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His film Kaboom (2010) was the first winner of the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm. Early life and education.
Oct 1, 2024 · It’s impossible to talk about New Queer Cinema without talking about Gregg Araki, whose low-fi, erotic, playfully surreal style still feels one of a kind. He is perhaps most known for his ‘Teen Apocalypse’ trilogy: “Totally F**ked Up” (1993), “The Doom Generation” (1995) and “Nowhere” (1997).
Sep 13, 2023 · Araki: The production designer of Nowhere, Patti Podesta, her background is in studio art and stuff, and a lot of her department were Cal Art students.So, there was a lot of art stuff going on, particularly in the production design. And the late, great, Thérèse DePrez did the production design of Doom Generation, and it was the same thing. It was the first time I’d ever had a production ...
Gregg Araki takes a road trip to hell in this wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland. When they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech), a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky, and darkly comic journey ...
Nov 23, 2023 · Few filmmakers have achieved cult success the way Gregg Araki has. Heavily associated with the New Queer Cinema movement of the ’90s, Araki’s movies, which often interrogate unapologetically queer themes, have alternately been labeled nihilistic, anarchic, hilarious, and life-affirming, though they’ve always retained his signature aesthetic and emotional stamp.
Oct 10, 2023 · October 10, 2023. Richard Linklater and Gregg Araki, photographed by James Duval last month in Austin, Texas. The decades spent scrounging for pirated versions of Gregg Akari films has passed, and a new generation of fans has arrived, along with 4K restorations of his cult classics, Nowhere and Doom Generation.
Gregg Araki, the crown prince of queer slacker punk, maintains his edge without making a fuss in his real life. He seems like the type who wouldn’t mind if you left off the second g of his name on his cup at Starbucks, which is where he writes, according to his collaborator Karley Sciortino (they wrote and produced his 2019 television show Now Apocalypse together).
Jun 29, 2023 · Gregg Araki on the set of Kaboom. 2010 saw the release of Araki’s tenth feature Kaboom at the Cannes Film Festival where audiences were invited to witness Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, and James Duval as a group of college students engaging in numerous sexual escapades in between probing an unorthodox cult. Made under a budget of $539,957, Kaboom is the loudest demonstration of ...
Mar 4, 2019 · Gregg Araki movies come peppered with beautiful people, bold fashion statements, tongue-in-cheek humour and overt pop culture references. Yet behind it all there is a strong personal and political conviction, as he responds to homophobia or confronts backward attitudes. His radical films speak to the outsider spirit, rejecting heterosexuality ...
Aug 17, 2022 · Gregg Araki Was ‘Born at the Exact Right Moment’ to Ignite ’90s Queer Punk Rock Cinema. '90s Week: "Fire Island" filmmaker Andrew Ahn interviews the '90s icon about his Teenage Apocalypse ...
